Comments on: Matt Ridley and Benny Peiser’s Misleading Guide to the Climate Debate

By: Royal Society Puts Matt Ridley And His Friends On Notice – Greg Laden's Blog

Wed, 12 Oct 2016 14:45:30 +0000

[…] Matt Ridley and Benny Peiser’s Misleading Guide to the Climate Debate […]

By: John Russell (@johnrussell40)

John Russell (@johnrussell40) — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 14:26:30 +0000

The record-breaking vicious flooding in the UK and elsewhere in December which happened concurrently with high temperatures records—thus proving the simple physics of global warming—completely blows the claim that there has been “no changes in extreme storms, or flooding” out of the water. Ordinary ‘people in the street’ can now see we have a serious climate problem, and need no prompting to recognise what total charlatans Ridley and Peiser, henchman of the GWPF, represent.

By: Today’s Climate Change Congressional Hearings – Greg Laden's Blog

Today’s Climate Change Congressional Hearings – Greg Laden's Blog — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 16:36:45 +0000

[…] pretty sure is a category (including Lord Christopher Monckton and coal baron Lord Viscount Matt Ridley); the economist Roger Pielke Junior, who is famous for being drummed out of the […]

By: Christopher Winter

Christopher Winter — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 16:24:18 +0000

I wrote: It takes a degree of willful blindness for a pundit, ostensibly smart and well-informed, to fail to connect these dots. Allow me to paraphrase a line from Circle of Iron: "Tie two denialists together and, though they have four eyes, they cannot see." That doesn't mean a whole lot, but it was fun.

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 20:24:10 +0000

It’s a “global conspiracy” to hide the incline.

We should demand that the government force them to turn over their emails…

By: Desertphile

Desertphile — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 20:13:11 +0000

In reply to Brainstorms. Brainstorms: "Because he has a valid point there: The real world does not care what the deniers think. It is what it is, and it will continue to react to having gigatons of CO2 pumped into the atmosphere every year by humanity. The result is global overheating, regardless of how they torture the data to make it look otherwise." Professional denialists work hard to HIDE THE INCLINE.

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 16:17:15 +0000

Perhaps rxc was lambasting the deniers for torturing data to get the results that they want…

Because he has a valid point there: The real world does not care what the deniers think. It is what it is, and it will continue to react to having gigatons of CO2 pumped into the atmosphere every year by humanity. The result is global overheating, regardless of how they torture the data to make it look otherwise.

By: Desertphile

Desertphile — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 15:06:49 +0000

In reply to rxc. rxc: "Ha Ha Ha. Rhetoric is not data. Calculations are not data. torturing real data to create ersatz “data” is not data. The real world does not care what you think." Why, by gods you're right! That never occurred to me! I now agree completely with... with... well, with whatever your point if there is one is! I how that makes the missing ice come back.

By: rxc

rxc — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 02:56:27 +0000

So, you take a couple of studies of people talking about the issue among themselves (they all agree that the opposite side does not know what they are talking about), plus a few studies of people torturing data in order to get the answer they want, and come us with “data”

Ha Ha Ha. Rhetoric is not data. Calculations are not data. torturing real data to create ersatz “data” is not data.

The real world does not care what you think.

By: Manu

Manu — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 20:15:50 +0000

Great analysis Greg!
A dozen scientists also performed a complete analysis of the claims made in this op-ed with Climate Feedback and came to similar conclusions. You can see their point by point rebuttal of the WSJ oped here: http://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/analysis-of-matt-ridley-benny-peiser-your-complete-guide-to-the-climate-debate/